Dr. Pearl John

Dr. Pearl John is a well-regarded leader in the assessment and leadership development space. He has served in 28  countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Pearl brings sharp insights into leadership behaviors and has facilitated coaching  sessions for the top leadership including Managing Directors of reputed organizations such as HSBC, Philips among others. He also serves in the Boards of organizations including the Logos Management, Young Soul Foundation, World Vision International et al.,

He provides the technical architecture for client-specific solutions and engages in end-to-end conceptualization of the design and implementation of assessment and development interventions for top and senior management levels.  Pearl conceptualized DISCOVER, an approach to coaching. Further he has institutionalized PROGRESS, a framework for developmental dialogues to facilitate individual Development planning.  His role includes engaging with clients at the CXO level to present our solutions and generate buy-in as also facilitate enablement of the internal team and the associate network.

Pearl served as the Consulting Director in SHL, a global consulting firm where he served as a member of the India Leadership Team and the Asia PS Leadership Team. Prior to that Pearl was with Taj Services Ltd, where he was Corporate Manager –Training & Development, having joined the hotel company Taj Group as Quality Facilitator.  That followed his first employment, as Consultant with an affiliate of Taj Group, Headway- The Human Resources.  He has held several portfolios within the Taj, including Recruitment, Quality, Training and Generalist HR.  Pearl was responsible for streamlining learning and development, talent management and organizational effectiveness. He conceptualized and implemented a range of behavioral interventions including team building and leadership enrichment programs.

Pearl has facilitated CEO talent review sessions to enable well thought through talent decisions for critical high impact positions in client organizations. He helped shape future leader identification and development programs for HiPos through an integrated learning journey encompassing assessment center, classroom interventions, action learning, coaching and mentoring

During his career, Pearl has worked with a number of blue chip organizations across industry verticals that have included automobiles, aviation, BFSI, breweries, coal, FMCG, hospitality, healthcare, IT/ITES, manufacturing, NGOs, petroleum and natural gas, pharmaceutical, power, railways, research, retail and sugar.

Pearl holds a Postgraduate Degree in Industrial Psychology specialising in Organisational Behavior and a Doctorate in Leadership.  He speaks English, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam.